Principal Data Analyst

• Are you a senior analyst who thinks strategically about data and can influence how an organisation uses it to make decisions?
• Are you someone who can step into an established portfolio of work at pace and set the bar for how we manage data quality, governance and insight?
• If you’ve operated at Principal or Lead Analyst level in fintech or a regulated, data-heavy industry, and you’re energised by moving between hands-on analysis to acting as a strategic partner to the business, this could be the role., * Act as a trusted voice and influencer across the business, engaging stakeholders directly to shape organisational data strategy and decision-making.

Data Governance & Strategy

• Provide strategic oversight of data management across Modulr, define governance standards and policy, and contribute to the long-term data strategy.

Data Quality & Standards

• Set and champion organisational standards for data modelling, quality assurance, validation, and enrichment - and develop best practice frameworks that others follow.

Data Visualisation & Insight Communication

• Set the standard for how we visualise and communicate data insights, leading the strategic direction of the practice across teams.

Team Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor and develop analysts on the team, building capability and raising the quality of analytical work during a period of leadership transition.

• Proven experience operating at Principal, Lead or Senior Analyst level, ideally within fintech, payments or another regulated, data-intensive industry.
• A track record of translating complex data into insight that genuinely shapes data-driven decisions across an organisation.
• Deep expertise in data modelling, quality assurance and visualisation, with the confidence and judgement to set standards rather than just follow them.
• Strong statistical and analytical grounding - you’re comfortable moving between hands-on analysis and strategic oversight.
• The ability to step into an established team and portfolio of work at short notice, with the confidence to keep initiatives moving without an extended ramp-up period.

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring and developing analytical teams, especially during periods of transition or change.
• Exposure to high-stakes, high-visibility data challenges in a fast-growing, regulated fintech or financial services business.

Modulr is the payments automation platform that streamlines money movement with accuracy, control and reliability - built to scale. We process more than 200m transactions and over £180bn in payment value on an annualised basis, and we’re trusted by over 6,000 businesses from fast-growing SMEs to global enterprises.

We automate how money moves into and out of a business - payroll, supplier payments, spend management and payment collection - through a single platform, connected to the accounting and payroll systems finance teams already use and underpinned by principal memberships of Visa and Mastercard and direct access to central bank infrastructure.

As a regulated payments provider with over a decade of experience, we’re the platform finance teams trust to run mission-critical operations. Modulr is backed by PayPal, FIS, General Atlantic, Blenheim Chalcot, Frog Capital and Highland Europe, with over 400 employees across London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Mumbai.